Police Face New Threat In Accidental Overdoses

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Guns, knives, violent assaults.
Now a new threat to first responders is surfacing.
Alex DeMetrick reports, that threat is contacting, and accidentally overdosing on, a powerful narcotic.
Saving the lives of people who overdose is a growing part of the job for first responders like paramedics and police.
Last Friday, A sheriff’s deputy responding to an overdose call in Harford County started feeling strange.
“He was feeling the effects that are usually associat